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Core Lexicon analysis of spoken discourse production by Mandarin Chinese speakers with Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Juqiang Chen, Hui Chang
Spoken discourse production has been increasingly recognised as an important source for assessing language competence of persons with aphasia (PWA). Most linguistic measures rely on transcripts of ...
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Cerebellar tDCS enhances functional communication skills in chronic Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ji Hyun Kim, Sarah Cust, Becky Lammers, Shannon M. Sheppard, Lynsey M. Keator, Donna C. Tippett, Argye E. Hillis, Rajani Sebastian
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has emerged as a possible neuromodulatory tool to augment language therapy in post-stroke aphasia. However, there is limited information on whether tD...
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Gesture profiles distinguish primary progressive aphasia variants: a preliminary study Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Haley C. Dresang, Rand Williamson, Hana Kim, Argye E. Hillis, Laurel J. Buxbaum
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by progressive language deficits. The main variants of PPA – semantic (svPPA), logopenic (lvPPA), and nonfluent (nfvP...
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Linguistic and cultural properties of the Spanish adaptation of the CAT (SP-CAT): pilot results from neurotypical subjects Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Silvia Martínez Ferreiro, Yina M. Quique, Viviana Alejandra Rodríguez, Carolina Méndez Orellana
Aphasia assessments in languages other than English are scarce. In the case of Spanish, this scarcity includes a need for assessments with linguistic and cultural adaptations that consider dialecta...
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Implementing intensive comprehensive aphasia programs in Brazil: Challenges and solutions Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Magali de Lourdes Caldana, Roxele Ribeiro Lima, Miranda L Rose
Aphasia, a communication disability prevalent among stroke survivors, significantly impacts psychosocial well-being and quality of life. Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) provide int...
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Augmentative and alternative communication: the experience of Malaysian speech-language pathologists and caregivers of individuals with aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Susheel Joginder Singh, Ummu Aimann Makhtar, Fatimah Hani Hassan, Jia Hao Foong, Sherin Sokmum, Akmaliza Ali
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) serves as a compensatory intervention approach for individuals with aphasia and is often introduced by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) after out...
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Initial evaluation of the TALES (technology and literacy engagement after stroke) programme targeting functional literacy and social engagement in people with aphasia after stroke Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Berzan Cetinkaya, Katherine E. Twomey, Paul Conroy
Literacy skills are typically affected in people with stroke aphasia, leading to reduced engagement in functional everyday reading/writing tasks, such as email/messaging via social media. The aim o...
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Toward Self-Regulated Learning in Aphasia Rehabilitation: A Proposed Framework Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Gerald C. Imaezue, Mira Goral
Active collaboration between speech-language therapists (SLTs) and persons with aphasia (PWA) is essential for personalizing aphasia treatment and optimizing clinical outcomes during aphasia rehabi...
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Preliminary evidence for two patterns of phonological similarity judgments of word-pairs by persons with Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nichol Castro, Cynthia S. Q. Siew
Phonological similarity judgments of word-pairs have been shown to reflect the structure of a phonological network of word-forms, where words are connected to each other if they differ by one phone...
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Telerehabilitation with Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) in two participants with mild-to-moderate and moderate-to-severe aphasia: A single-case experimental design study Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Malin Torinsson, Charlotta Saldert, Signe Rödseth Smith, Joana Kristensson, Francesca Longoni
Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) is a verb-centred aphasia treatment that targets the semantic relationships between a verb (e.g., dig) and related content words (e.g., gardener, hole),...
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Slovenian version of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale 39-Generic Version (SAQOL-39g): Psychometric properties Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Patricija Širca Ule, Gaj Vidmar
Aphasia, which is one of the most common consequences of stroke, has severe impact on everyday life. Quality of life in persons with aphasia changes dramatically. In the recent years, there has bee...
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Validity and Validation in Language Testing: Current State and Future Guidelines in Aphasiology Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Basem Marie, Fadi AlSwaiti
Assessment of language for individuals suffering from stroke or other brain injury is imperative for diagnosis and management. Comprehensive standardized aphasia tests have been used for decades, a...
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Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs): Launching the next decade of research and clinical implementation Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Victoria L. Scharp, Catherine Off, Jenna Griffin-Musick
The Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (ICAP) is a rehabilitation service delivery model initially articulated in a seminal article featured in the 2013 Special Issue of Topics in Stroke Rehab...
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Configuration of a telerehabilitation system to deliver a comprehensive aphasia therapy program via telerehabilitation (TeleCHAT): A human-centred design approach Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Genevieve Vuong, Clare L. Burns, Jade Dignam, David A. Copland, Hannah Wedley, Annie J. Hill
The delivery of Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) via telerehabilitation is a potential solution to the ongoing geographical, transport, and mobility barriers that people with aphasi...
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The “I” in ICAPs: examining treatment intensity under the microscope Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jenna Griffin-Musick, Sam Harvey, John E. Pierce, Danielle Fahey, Catherine Off
Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) provide high doses of treatment over short periods. Treatment intensity in post-stroke aphasia rehabilitation and research is not well understood an...
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What Conversation Topics are Meaningful to People with Aphasia? A qualitative study Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Niamh Devane, Shannon Buxton, Chelsie Fox, Jane Marshall, Deirdre Staunton, Jennifer Whiddett, Stephanie Wilson, Katerina Hilari
Speech and language therapists apply word finding therapies for people with aphasia with good outcomes on treated words but limited evidence of generalisation to untreated words. As generalisation ...
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The left posterior sMMN: a marker of syntactic processing compensation in agrammatic aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Yali Liu, Jiexin Gu, Ying San, Bing Zhang, Yong Ma, Jie Xiang, Zunke Gong, Jing Zhang, Xun Miao, Tongquan Zhou
Agrammatic aphasia poses challenges in assessing grammatical abilities due to language comprehension difficulties. The suitability of sMMN as an indicator of syntactic processing abilities in these...
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Oral Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Persons with Alexia and Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Kimberly G. Smith, Jordan S. Lins
This study examined word list and connected text oral reading fluency of persons with alexia and aphasia and whether fluency predicts reading comprehension abilities.Twelve individuals with chronic...
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A Survey on the Speech Therapy Rehabilitation Landscape for Aphasia in Brazil Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Roxele Ribeiro Lima, Raffaela Borges, Helbert do Nascimento Lima, Magali de Lourdes Caldana, Maria Isabel D’Ávila Freitas
to evaluate characteristics of aphasia rehabilitation, its barriers, and differences according to educational level (undergraduate level in speech-language pathology (SLP) or otherwise, professiona...
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Research gaps in Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs: A qualitative study Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Victoria L. Scharp, Catherine A. Off, Micaela Wilson, Katie Jo Roberts
Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) provide a variety of therapies for cohorts of individuals with aphasia. Converging evidence for proof of concept and acceptability data demonstrates...
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Changes in Complete Utterances Following Communication-Based Group Treatment for Chronic Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Christa M. Akers, Mary Boyle, Alexander M. Swiderski, William D. Hula, Robert Cavanaugh, Roberta J. Elman
Evidence suggests that communication-based aphasia group treatment may increase formal assessment scores and improve features of discourse production. The real-life interactions which occur during ...
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Ratings of perceived stress in persons with aphasia by unfamiliar proxy reporters, proxy reporter self-reported perceived stress, stress contagion, and trait empathy Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Hannah Wendel Griffey, Jacqueline Laures-Gore
Accurate assessment of self-perceived stress is crucial because perceived stress has been linked to post-stroke depression in persons with aphasia and may be related to linguistic performance. Meas...
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Shave, shear, shred, or cut: PPA variant differentially impacts erroneous responses produced in a confrontation naming test of verbs Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Ashley Raman, Argye E. Hillis, Melissa D. Stockbridge
All common variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) exhibit naming deficits. Variants are distinguished by relative deficits in repetition (logopenic; lvPPA), object knowledge (semantic; svPPA...
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Aphasia subsequent to stroke in adults with Williams syndrome or autism: A review Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Sierra Silva, Rhiannon Phillips, Jamie E. Bloss, Matthew Walenski
Aphasia is an acquired neurogenic language disorder that is often caused by stroke in adulthood. However, how does aphasia present, and how can it be effectively treated, in a neurodivergent adult ...
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The communication needs of people with primary progressive aphasia and their family: a scoping review Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Katharine Davies, Tami Howe, Jeff Small, Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Elaina McCarron
Language-led dementias, collectively called primary progressive aphasia (PPA), are caused by relatively focal damage to the language networks of the brain. The progressive language decline of PPA i...
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Correction Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Published in Aphasiology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The public awareness and knowledge of aphasia in Saudi Arabia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Reem S. W. Alyahya
Public awareness of aphasia is essential to ensure that people with aphasia receive the support and understanding they need. Previous studies in non-Arabic speaking countries have found a universal...
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The effects of cognitive-linguistic interventions to treat aphasia in the first 90 days post-stroke: A systematic review Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Emily Eley, Maayken van den Berg, Miranda L. Rose, John E. Pierce, Abby Foster, Edwina Lamborn, Sarah D’Souza, Erin Godecke, Lucette Lanyon, Ciara Shiggins, Ian Kneebone, Caroline Baker
Cognitive-linguistic interventions for aphasia are behavioural-based approaches to therapy that aim to treat language impairment skills post-acquired brain injury. The purpose of cognitive-linguist...
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More than one way to improve a CAT: Outcomes and reflections on two iterations of the Queen Square Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programme Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Alexander Leff, Catherine Doogan, John Bentley, Bani Makkar, Luisa Zenobi-Bird, Amy Sherman, Simon Grobler, Jennifer Crinion
The field of human expert performance teaches us that high quality, high-dose guided practice is required to make large gains in cognitively driven acts. The same also seems to be true for people w...
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Implementation of the Comprehensive High-dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) program: “A different way of operating” Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Jade K. Dignam, Kirstine Shrubsole, Kate O’Brien, Lynell Bassett, Penni Burfein, Natalie Hickey, Katherine Roxas, Hannah Wedley, Nicole Massoud, Jasmina Singh, David Copland
Despite growing evidence supporting the clinical efficacy of Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs), there are implementation challenges that may prevent widespread adoption of ICAPs by h...
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Adaptation and Validation of the World Health Organization Quality of Life – BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) for People with Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Ana Filipa S. Araújo, Luis M. T. Jesus, Pedro Sa-Couto, Maria Assunção C. Matos
It is essential to consider the well-being and quality of life (QoL) of the person as part of an effective intervention in health. To this end, the World Health Organization developed an instrument...
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Improved comprehension of irony and indirect requests following a severe traumatic brain injury: two case studies Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Natacha Cordonier, Maud Champagne-Lavau, Marion Fossard
Following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), people frequently have difficulty understanding nonliteral language, including irony and indirect requests. Despite the handicap that these disorders can r...
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Feasibility of an abstract verb naming treatment for aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Dallin J. Bailey, Lisa Bunker, Julie L. Wambaugh
Verb production impairments in aphasia have important implications for sentence production and communication in general. Verbs with low concreteness may be especially important for certain function...
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Telerehabilitation of aphasia: A systematic review of the literature Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Berzan Cetinkaya, Katherine Twomey, Bria Bullard, Sabrina EL Kouaissi, Paul Conroy
This review aims to describe the rapidly developing field of telerehabilitation of post-stroke aphasia. In doing so, it considered the impact of telerehabilitation on the treatment literature for a...
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“I Wasn’t Just Sitting There”: Empowering Care Partners through the Aphasia-Friendly Reading Approach Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Erin L. O’Bryan, Harold R. Regier, Katie A. Strong
Sharing stories is a way that people make meaning out of life and connect with others socially. For couples in which one person has aphasia, the ability to have conversations and share stories may ...
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An electrophysiological and behavioral investigation of feedback-based learning in aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Kristen Nunn, Yael Arbel, Sofia Vallila-Rohter
Feedback is a fundamental aspect of aphasia treatments. However, learning from feedback is a cognitively demanding process. At the most basic level, individuals must detect feedback and extract out...
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A Novel Morphology-Based Naming Therapy for People with Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Tammar Truzman, Michal Biran, Nachum Soroker, Tamar Levy, Tali Bitan
Previous studies have demonstrated that naming treatments can improve language abilities in people with aphasia (PWA). However, there is currently a lack of protocols for evidence-based naming trea...
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Muddles and puzzles: Metaphor use associated with disease progression in Primary Progressive Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Anna Volkmer, Jade Cartwright, Leanne Ruggero, Maria Loizidou, Chris JD Hardy, Deborah Hersh
Primary Progressive Aphasia describes a language-led dementia and its variants. There is little research exploring the experiences of living with this disease. Metaphor, words that represent someth...
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To make a long story short: A descriptive study of formulaic language use in post-stroke fluent aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Catherine Torrington Eaton, Sarah Thomas
Language sample analysis is a common tool for inventorying an individual’s linguistic strengths and weaknesses. Although most research has focused on quantifying propositional or novel language pro...
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‘To be’ or not ‘to be’: an analysis of copula production and omission in people with non-fluent aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Giuditta Smith, Charlotte Kershaw, Valentina Brunetto, Maria Garraffa
Agrammatic aphasia has been widely associated with impairments with functional words and complex sentences. Speech errors of people with aphasia (PWA) have been reported to be selective, with patte...
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Counseling practices of speech-language pathologists working with aphasia: “I did not have adequate training in actual counseling strategies.” Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Jerry K. Hoepner, Aspen K. Townsend
Counseling is a part of the scope of practice for speech-language pathologists (SLPs), however training has been inconsistent across programs. Students, clinical fellows, and practicing SLPs alike ...
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Best Practice in Post-Stroke Aphasia Services According to People with Lived Experience. A Modified Nominal Group Technique Study Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Sarah J. Wallace, Lisa Anemaat, Michelle Attard, Caroline Baker, Karianne Berg, Marcella Carragher, Jytte Isaksen, Brooke Ryan, Nina Simmons-Mackie, Edwina Wang, Linda Worrall, Kirstine Shrubsole
Clinical practice guidelines and best practice statements aim to optimise patient outcomes through recommended processes of care. The Aphasia United Best Practice Recommendations were developed to ...
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Development of an evidence-based aphasia therapy implementation tool: an international survey of speech pathologists’ access to and use of aphasia therapy resources Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Jade K. Dignam, Sam Harvey, Katie Monnelly, Lucy Dipper, Elizabeth Hoover, Melanie Kirmess, Bettina Mohr, Evy Visch-Brink, Sarah E. Wallace, Miranda L. Rose
ABSTRACT Background Speech and language therapy can reduce the level of impairment and disability caused by aphasia (Brady et al., 2016). Selecting a therapy can be challenging for clinicians who may struggle to stay abreast of the best evidence to support therapy selection (Rose et al., 2014). Once a therapy is selected, accessing relevant resources is a significant barrier to implementation (Shrubsole
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How dual-task interference on word production is modulated by the timing of the secondary task: evidence from errors in people with aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Cyrielle Demierre, Grégoire Python, Bertrand Glize, Marina Laganaro
ABSTRACT Background Utterance production is affected under dual-task conditions, but so far studies have shown an impact either on lexical or on phonological processes, but not on both simultaneously. Aims In the present study, we aimed at investigating how interference on lexical and phonological encoding is modulated by the timing of the concurrent task and by the attentional requirement (divided
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Pre- to Postoperative Longitudinal Follow-up of Phoneme Perception in Glioma Patients: Evidence from the Mismatch Negativity and P300 Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Yana Criel, Edward Baert, Jean-Pierre Kalala Okito, Giorgio Hallaert, Dirk Van Roost, Luc De Baerdemaeker, Wouter Degrève, Marijke Miatton, Patrick Santens, Pieter Van Mierlo, Miet De Letter
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Glioma growth in eloquent language areas induces adaptive activation changes in the language network. The present study aimed to (1) investigate the pre- to postoperative evolution of neural phoneme perception processes in glioma patients and (2) assess if event-related potentials (ERPs) reflecting phoneme perception can provide added value to the diagnostic approach in
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Aphasia awareness and knowledge in Croatia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Ana Došen, Tatjana Prizl Jakovac
ABSTRACT Background Awareness and knowledge about aphasia are very important as they lead to positive changes that have a particular impact on the quality of life of people with aphasia (PWA) and their families. So far, studies in numerous countries have shown that public awareness and knowledge about aphasia are low and differ in certain groups, e.g., by age, gender, occupation and level of education
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Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT): Comparability of the Croatian and Norwegian versions Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Ana Matić Škorić, Monica Irene Norvik, Jelena Kuvač Kuvač Kraljević, Ingvild Røste, Hanne Gram Simonsen
ABSTRACT Background To be able to conduct comparative research on aphasia assessment and rehabilitation across languages, there is a need for comparable assessment tools. Croatian and Norwegian are among the first languages for which the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) versions have been published within the Working Group 2 of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists network. Comparing the performance
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How do speech pathologists use the Australian Aphasia Rehabilitation Pathway to inform practice? A qualitative study Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Megan Trebilcock, Emma Power, Miranda L. Rose, Kirstine Shrubsole
ABSTRACT Background Packaged evidence syntheses such as Best Practice Statements are important knowledge translation tools for improving healthcare provision. The Australian Aphasia Rehabilitation Pathway (AARP) is an online tool (www.aphasiapathway.com.au) based on the Aphasia Rehabilitation Best Practice Statements, developed to guide evidence-based aphasia services across the continuum of care.
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Subjective Experience of Word Production Difficulties in Aphasia: a Metaphor Analysis of Autobiographical Accounts Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Bethan Tichborne, Fang Liu, Arpita Bose
The subjective experience of neurological symptoms provides useful information for assessment, intervention and care. However, research in the subjective experience of aphasia is limited. Word prod...
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Differences in Connected Speech Outcomes Across Elicitation Methods Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Tatiana T. Schnur, Sharon Wang
Connected speech is often used to assess many aspects of an individual’s language abilities after stroke. However, it is unknown the degree to which elicitation methods differ in generating structu...
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Communicative accessibility and prospective acceptability of a digital behavioural activation intervention for people with aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Sayampurna Ray, Brooke Ryan, Peter Baldwin, Shirley Thomas, Ian Kneebone
Behavioural Activation (BA) is a mental health treatment that encourages a person to develop or re-engage in activities that are pleasurable and meaningful to them. It is important to consider the ...
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Preliminary evidence comparing three auditory attention network tests in people with aphasia and matched controls Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Arianna N. LaCroix, Sara Perreira, Ashley McMillon
The Attention Network Test (ANT) was initially developed to measure three types of attention, alerting attention, orienting attention, and executive control attention, using a single cued-flanker t...
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Automatically measuring speech fluency in people with aphasia: first achievements using read-speech data Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Lionel Fontan, Typhanie Prince, Aleksandra Nowakowska, Halima Sahraoui, Silvia Martinez-Ferreiro
Speech and language pathologists (SLPs) often rely on judgements of speech fluency for diagnosing or monitoring patients with aphasia. However, such subjective methods have been criticised for thei...
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Recursive Self-feedback Improved Speech Fluency in Two Patients with Chronic Nonfluent Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Gerald C. Imaezue, Ofer Tchernichovski, Mira Goral
Previous studies have demonstrated that people with nonfluent aphasia (PWNA) improve their language production after repeating personalized scripts, modeled by speech-language pathologists (SLPs). ...
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Measuring Inner Speech Objectively and Subjectively in Aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Julianne M. Alexander, Peter Langland-Hassan, Brielle C. Stark
Many people with aphasia and people without brain injury talk to themselves in their heads, i.e., have “inner speech.” Inner speech may be more preserved compared with spoken speech for some people...
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Mary has a little chair: Eliciting noun-modifier phrases in individuals with acute post-stroke aphasia Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Melissa D. Stockbridge, William Matchin, Elizabeth DeLuque, Massoud Sharif, Julius Fridriksson, Andreia V. Faria, Argye E. Hillis
Aphasia assessment primarily examines an individual’s syntax, nouns, and verbs. However, modifiers, such as adjectives and number words, and bound morphemes can be the subject of considerable diffi...
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Word retrieval in aphasia: From naming tests to connected speech and the impact on well-being Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Michal Biran, Galit Ben-Or, Hila Yihye-Shmuel
Language assessment includes mainly structured tasks; however, everyday communication requires additional abilities. An important clinical question is whether the performance of individuals on stru...
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Preferences of people with post-stroke aphasia for aphasia research videos: An international project Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Emma Finch, John E. Pierce, Analisa M. Pais, Carol Dow-Richards, Allie Reed, Marina Charalambous, Maria Assunção Matos, Sarah J. Wallace, Caterina Breitenstein
Most aphasia research is published in international, peer-reviewed journals in a format that is inaccessible for people with aphasia (PWA). Video presents an ideal format for disseminating informat...
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People with aphasia living alone: A scoping review Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Sue Sherratt
Many elements associated with aphasia, its assessment and treatment, and its effects on individuals living with this disorder have been examined. However, the implications for people with aphasia o...
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Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) treatment in L1 and L2 in bilingual aphasia: Effects of cognitive and language factors Aphasiology (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Alina Bihovsky, Michal Ben-Shachar, Natalia Meir
Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) treatment has been proven to be effective in alleviating word finding difficulties in individuals with aphasia. However, there is no consensus on the impact of SFA o...